glgE Resolved · high auto-curated

H37Rv Rv1327c · MTBC0 - · 701 aa · 1492320–1494425 (-) · RefSeq NP_215843.2

Annotation: from legacy to revised

Legacy (H37Rv / Mycobrowser)alpha-1,4-glucan:maltose-1-phosphate maltosyltransferase
MTBC0 PGAP re-annotation
Revised (this work)Alpha-1,4-glucan:maltose-1-phosphate maltosyltransferase. Pfam: GlgE_dom_N_S (PF11896.15), GLGE_C (PF21702.4).

Auto-curated: this verdict and function were generated by rules from PGAP + Pfam + Foldseek and have not been hand-reviewed.

Annotated on the H37Rv protein: this gene has no 1:1 ancestral MTBC0 anchor (PE/PPE, paralogue, IS element, or otherwise unanchored CDS).

Curated reference (UniProt)

UniProt P9WQ17 SwissProt · reviewed · Evidence at protein level
UniProt nameAlpha-1,4-glucan:maltose-1-phosphate maltosyltransferase
EC (curated) EC 2.4.99.16
Curated functionEssential maltosyltransferase that uses maltose 1-phosphate (M1P) as the sugar donor to elongate linear or branched alpha-(1->4)-glucans. Maltooligosaccharides with a degree of polymerization (DP) superior or equal to 4 are efficient acceptors, with DP5 being optimal in the GlgE-catalyzed polymerization with M1P. Is specific for the alpha-anomer of M1P as substrate, since the beta-anomer of M1P gives no activity. Exhibits an alpha-retaining catalytic mechanism. Is also able to catalyze the reverse reaction in vitro, releasing M1P from glycogen in the presence of inorganic phosphate. Also catal.

Functional vocabulary (eggNOG-mapper, orthology transfer)

COG category G Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
Preferred nameglgE
eggNOG descriptionMaltosyltransferase that uses maltose 1-phosphate (M1P) as the sugar donor to elongate linear or branched alpha-(1- 4)- glucans. Is involved in a branched alpha-glucan biosynthetic pathway from trehalose, together with TreS, Mak and GlgB
Orthologous groupCOG0366
EC number EC 2.4.99.16
KEGG orthology K16147
KEGG pathways map00500, map01100
CAZy family GH13
Gene Ontology (18) GO:0003674, GO:0003824, GO:0005575, GO:0005622, GO:0005623, GO:0005737, GO:0005829, GO:0005886, GO:0008150, GO:0016020, GO:0016740, GO:0016757 +6 more

Orthology-based transfer (eggNOG 5.0.2, diamond). EC/KO/GO/CAZy are computed annotations, not manual curation; cross-check against the primary literature before treating a specific reaction as established.

Conservation & selection (intra-MTBC, 145 209 strains)

pN/pS 0.566 · relaxed/neutral
Polymorphic sites (≥ 0.1% of strains) 4 synonymous, 7 missense, 0 nonsense, 0 frameshift

pN/pS from segregating SNPs (singletons removed) normalised by possible sites. Low pN/pS = purifying selection (a strong signal that a "hypothetical" is a real, constrained gene). A high pN/pS is ambiguous: relaxed constraint or positive selection (drug resistance, antigenic variation) inflate it; e.g. rpoB/katG/pncA score high here for resistance, not loss of function. A clonal disruption (one allele over a clade) suggests lineage pseudogenisation; a convergent one (many independent alleles) is typical of resistance loss-of-function.

Domains (Pfam, hmmscan --cut_ga)

PfamAccessioni-EvalueResiduesDescription
GlgE_dom_N_SPF11896.15 4.2e-5316–226 Alpha-1,4-glucan:maltose-1-phosphate maltosyltransferase, domain N/S
GLGE_CPF21702.4 2.1e-32600–685 GLGE, C-terminal

Functional interaction network (STRING v12, guilt-by-association)

Closest characterised functional partner: glgB (1,4-alpha-glucan branching protein), high confidence from genomic context alone (score 999 excluding text-mining).

PartnerProductScoreNo text-miningChannels (≥400)
Rv1326c glgB 1,4-alpha-glucan branching protein 999 999 ctx neighborhood:882 coexpression:844 database:900 textmining:965
Rv0127 mak maltokinase 999 990 ctx cooccurence:771 experimental:484 database:900 textmining:965
Rv1212c glgA capsular glucan synthase 998 970 ctx cooccurence:662 database:900 textmining:959
Rv1781c malQ 4-alpha-glucanotransferase 980 951 database:900 textmining:610
Rv3032 glycogen synthase 984 914 database:900 textmining:829
Rv3031 1,4-alpha-glucan-branching protein 981 901 database:900 textmining:824
Rv1328 glgP glycogen phosphorylase 990 858 ctx neighborhood:772 textmining:936
Rv1564c treX maltooligosyl trehalose synthase 965 820 ctx cooccurence:650 coexpression:425 textmining:815
Rv1562c treZ malto-oligosyltrehalose trehalohydrolase 990 814 ctx cooccurence:728 textmining:949
Rv1563c treY maltooligosyl trehalose synthase 983 802 ctx cooccurence:745 textmining:921
Rv0126 treS trehalose synthase/amylase TreS 988 788 ctx cooccurence:751 textmining:949
Rv3253c cationic amino acid transport integral membrane protein 775 764 experimental:451 database:577
Rv2690c integral membrane protein 775 764 experimental:451 database:577
Rv1999c transporter 775 764 experimental:451 database:577
Rv2320c rocE cationic amino acid transporter permease RocE 775 764 experimental:451 database:577

STRING combines evidence channels (neighborhood, fusion, cooccurrence, coexpression, experimental, database, text-mining) into a 0–1000 score. The ctx badge marks edges carried by the genomic-context channels (conserved neighborhood, fusion, phylogenetic co-occurrence), which are independent of orthology and structure and the strongest signal for an unknown gene. The no text-mining column recomputes the score from data alone, so a link that does not depend on the literature is visible. Association is a function hypothesis, not proof: corroborate with the operon context and the primary literature before assigning a function.

Evidence

  • Annotation from H37Rv (no MTBC0 1:1 anchor; H37Rv protein used): alpha-1,4-glucan:maltose-1-phosphate maltosyltransferase
  • Pfam (hmmscan --cut_ga): GlgE_dom_N_S PF11896.15 (E=4e-53), GLGE_C PF21702.4 (E=2e-32)
  • (auto-curated by rules from PGAP + Pfam + Foldseek; not hand-reviewed)

Sources

  • Ancestral sequence & coordinates: Harrison LB et al. (2024), An imputed ancestral reference genome for the MTBC, doi:10.1101/2023.09.07.556366
  • Product annotation: NCBI PGAP on MTBC0; legacy from H37Rv NC_000962.3 (RefSeq NP_215843.2)
  • Domains: Pfam-A via hmmscan --cut_ga — GlgE_dom_N_S (PF11896.15), GLGE_C (PF21702.4)
  • Sequence-level signal: ESM Atlas (EvolutionaryScale × BioHub) — exploratory
  • Controlled vocabulary: eggNOG-mapper 2.1.12 (Cantalapiedra et al. 2021, doi:10.1093/molbev/msab293), eggNOG 5.0 DB (Huerta-Cepas et al. 2019) — OG COG0366
  • Curated reference: UniProt P9WQ17 (SwissProt, reviewed; Evidence at protein level)
  • Intra-MTBC selection: pN/pS and disruption from SPDI variants of 145 209 MTBC strains (this work, local collection vs H37Rv NC_000962.3)
  • Interaction network: STRING v12.0 (Szklarczyk et al. 2023, doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000), taxon 83332, CC-BY 4.0 — 41 functional partner(s); context anchor glgB
  • Primary literature: none located yet; annotation rests on the domain/homology sources above.

Ancestral MTBC0 protein sequence

>H37Rv|Rv1327c|glgE
MSGRAIGTETEWWVPGRVEIDDVAPVVSCGVYPAKAVVGEVVPVSAAVWREGHEAVAATLVVRYLGVRYPHLTDRPRARVLPTPSEPQQRVKPLLIPMTSGQEPFVFHGQFTPDRVGLWTFRVDGWGDPIHTWRHGLIAKLDAGQGETELSNDLLVGAVLLERAATGVPRGLRDPLLAAAAALRTPGDPVTRTALALTPEIEELLADYPLRDLVTRGEQFGVWVDRPLARFGAWYEMFPRSTGGWDDDGNPVHGTFATAAAELPRIAGMGFDVVYLPPIHPIGKVHRKGRNNSPTAAPTDVGSPWAIGSDEGGHDTVHPSLGTIDDFDDFVSAARDLGMEVALDLALQCAPDHPWAREHRQWFTELPDGTIAYAENPPKKYQDIYPLNFDNDPEGLYDEVLRVVQHWVNHGVKFFRVDNPHTKPPNFWAWLIAQVKTVDPDVLFLSEAFTPPARQYGLAKLGFTQSYSYFTWRTTKWELTEFGNQIAELADYRRPNLFVNTPDILHAVLQHNGPGMFAIRAVLAATMSPAWGMYCGYELFEHRAVREGSEEYLDSEKYELRPRDFASALDQGRSLQPFITRLNIIRRLHPAFQQLRTIHFHHVDNDALLAYSKFDPATGDCVLVVVTLNAFGPEEATLWLDMAALGMEDYDRFWVRDEITGEEYQWGQANYIRIDPARAVAHIINMPAVPYESRNTLLRRR